I can't heal your pain but I can see it. And you don't have to be lost. Not forever.

Maybe they did what they had to do to live, and tried to get a little love and have a little fun before the darkness took them.

If you find yourself imitating another writer, that doesn't have to be a bad thing, especially if you are a young or a new writer. However, you should be conscious of exactly how you are imitating him - word choice, sentence structure, motifs? - and think about why you're doing it.

New Orleans cuisine is Creole rather than Cajun.

If you're a freelance writer and aren't used to being ignored, neglected, and generally given short shrift, you must not have been in the business very long.

I can't heal your pain but I can see it. And you don't have to be lost. Not forever.

All at once it hit him: this was power too, just as surely as smashing your fist into someone’s face, just as surely as putting a hammer through someone’s skull. The power to make another person crazy with pleasure instead of fear and pain, to have every cell in another person’s body at your thrall.